Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what is more alarming, perhaps is that New York today draws even the New England business which should logically be Boston's. When, in November of '64, the Massachusetts Port Authority launched a campaign for Port of Boston Export Month they discovered that some 700,000 tons of general export cargo originating in Boston's immediate marketing area were being shipped via New York. (The campaign, incidentally, was wrecked by a Longshoremen's strike...
...Boston, then, clearly has a challenge in making its port a more successful going concern. What it has done with the challenge, however, is quite another story. At the end of World War II, it became evident that a controlling and supervisory body would be necessary to insure future growth for the port. Joseph P. Kennedy and a legislative commission researched the matter and proposed a state Department of Commerce. Massachusetts politics being what they are, however, the proposal soon became involved in a tug of war between the Governor and those business interests opposed to the Fair Employment Practice...
...port showed a surprising rate of growth. Between 1945 and 1959, the average volume of import-export cargo almost tripled. Construction and improvements involved huge expenditures, however, so the Massachusetts legislature terminated the Port of Boston as a government agency and in 1956 created the combined Massachusetts Port Authority. The Authority, which presently operates and controls Logan International Airport, Hanscom Field, Port of Boston properties, and the Mystic River Bridge (whose revenues are bigger than those of the port properties), is a curious mixture of business and government designed for the purpose of making the port a commercial concern, rather...
There is no doubt that combined revenues from the Mystic Bridge and Logan have enabled the entire operation to function without a drain on the taxpayer. But it is also true that the combined Authority has produced a very discouraging record for the port itself. The rate of gain in short tonnage has not increased appreciably since the Authority assumed control in 1959, and an even more depressing note is revealed in the number of ships visiting the port, which decreased by 361 ships from '59 to '64. The fact is simply that the MPA has not increased or even...
This question of the Authority's impact is perhaps the single most sig- nificant factor for the future of the port. There were, of course, unavoidable external elements which greatly hampered the port's prosperity during this period. Completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway provided new competition. A long about with the International Longshoremen's Association was at last somewhat abated, if not resolved, with a new contract. Railroad problems in the '60's caused the Authority to become embroiled in the now-famous rail rate parity case, which had previously enabled Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Baltimore to receive more advantageous...